Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. Written mostly in the voice of record holders from Guinness World Records, this chapbook is an ode to human superlatives, ludicrous acts, and our common strangeness. Edited by Suzanne Cleary and Margo Stever. "Stephanie Lenox's THE HEART THAT LIES OUTSIDE THE BODY mines the Guinness World Records to take metaphor to a sublime extreme. Her chapbook, peopled with its federation of freaks, is euphoric, generous, gracefully obsessive. There is intense personal depth in all of these poems, which are intimate, skillful, shimmering with complexity and awe"--Denise Duhamel.

The Heart That Lies Outside The Body

Literature & Fiction

Lenox, Stephanie

Poetry

Slapering Hol Press

Poetry. Stephanie Lenox's inventive debut collection CONGRESS OF STRANGE PEOPLE entices readers into a "federation of freaks" with voice-driven poems that sing a collective ode to our common strangeness. Employing humor, mystery, and a bold yet generous gaze, this book keeps company with a snake handler and conspiracy theorist, record-holders from The Guinness Book, Miss Manners, human cannonballs, Nancy Drew, and other characters from a family of outcasts. "To write so thoughtfully, humorously, zanily, and beautifully about dogs and cats, remorseful sisters and fumbling fathers, crazy record-holders and sexy snake charmers—every body and thing around us—is to live poetry. Lenox's life is animated into a colorful, deeply felt spectrum of discovery that spans 'a suspension bridge of disbelief' that we willingly believe and dive from, risking that splitting heart of fear and joy. A smart, surprising, and audacious book."—Henry Hughes, author of Moist Meridian "Stephanie Lenox's work mines the Guinness World Records to take metaphor to a sublime extreme. Peopled with its 'federation of freaks,' her book is euphoric, generous, gracefully obsessive. There is intense personal depth in all of these poems, which are intimate, skillful, shimmering with complexity and awe."—Denise Duhamel, author of Ka-Ching! "To enter this startling book, CONGRESS OF STRANGE PEOPLE, is to take an uneasy journey through the maze of mirrors, 'the other garden / our odd Eden, a tabula rasa of ludicrous acts': each encounter is arresting, disarming, sometimes grotesque, but always curiously familiar. These poems shed dazzling light upon human behavior and anomaly in order to teach us to accept, indeed love, the freaks and monsters stirring within. What a graceful, poetic gesture: Look, Stephanie Lenox tells us, 'that's how beautiful things get made.'"—Rigoberto González, author of Black Blossoms "Stephanie Lenox's poetry is so entertaining, captivating, inspiring, and delightful. Reading her work is like watching a brilliant trapeze artist. The daring young lady dazzles her audience with her skill, humor, and philosophy—flying through the air of imagination and creativity with the greatest of ease! I thoroughly enjoyed her performance and find it hard to come back down to earth!"—Ashrita Furman, official record-holder for holding most current Guinness World Records

Congress of Strange People

Airlie Press

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writers’ Guides and Anthologies)

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature. H. K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox introduce both traditional and innovative approaches to the short form and demonstrate how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while simultaneously resisting expectations. With discussion questions, writing prompts, flash interviews, and illustrated key concepts, the book covers:
 - Prose poetry - Flash fiction - Micro memoir - Lyric essay - Cross-genre/hybrid writing
. . . and much more.
 Short-Form Creative Writing also includes an anthology, offering inspiring examples of short-form writing in all of the styles covered by the book, including work by Charles Baudelaire, Italo Calvino, Lydia Davis, Grant Faulkner, Ilya Kaminsky, Jamaica Kincaid, and many others.

Hummel, H. K.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Bloomsbury Academic

Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State UniversityWinner of the 2015 Colorado Prize for Poetry What does it mean to work in the age of the cubicle? The Business takes on the modern workplace with sharp-witted poems that sting like a paper cut. A former secretary, Stephanie Lenox positions herself as a poetic note-taker of the mundane. Organized by the classical components of Greek tragedy, these poems enact the relationships, heartbreaks, and small heroic efforts that make up our working lives. Think there's nothing poetic about annoying coworkers, endless meetings, and stained coffee mugs? Think again. While tragedy provides the organizational structure for this collection, humor plays a central role. This collection transforms office politics and paper clips into a funny and critical examination of the mortal rat race. If you've ever been fired, let go, unemployed, underemployed, or overlooked, these poems are for you. Begun on stolen reams of printer paper, this book reclaims the hours of our lives we give, out of necessity, to others in order to survive.

The Business (Colorado Prize for Poetry)

Center for Literary Publishing

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The Heart That Lies Outside The Body

Congress of Strange People

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writers’ Guides and Anthologies)

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writers’ Guides and Anthologies)

The Business (Colorado Prize for Poetry)